Guitar Hero III demo coming tomorrow
by Justin McElroy 
{ Oct 22nd 2007 at 10:40AM }
For the forgetful among you, here are the songs you'll be rocking:
- "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" – Pat Benetar
- "Lay Down" – Priestess
- "Even Flow" – Pearl Jam
- "Rock You Like a Hurricane" – Scorpions
- "The Metal" by Tenacious D
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CaptNink @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:47AM
Suh-weet!
Who needs to buy the retail version when you have those five songs to play?! :D
baby sea tuna @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:57AM
*coughAchievementscough*
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:51AM
YOU WILL DO AS THE SCORPIONS BEFORE YOU!
AirIntake @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:54AM
Too afraid to burn a copy? Why? MS can't do anything about it if you haven't modded your console.
xXFenixKnight13Xx @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:59AM
Damn I wanna get this game but Im freakin broke!! COD4 and Army of Two are not helping me out either =( Damn you 360 damn you!!! Bioshock, Halo3, Orange Box......my wife isnt too happy about my videogame expenditures
ThornedVenom @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:07AM
One can dream of free guitar controllers for the demo...
Cellien @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:12AM
How the hell do you play the demo? With a controller? :S
gonk @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:15AM
if you had gh2...
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:18AM
So this demo is useless for those of us who don't own GH2 for 360.
I might just get it for wii, just for spite.
baby sea tuna @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:21AM
Right Crono, cause the Wii's GHIII demo is so much more playable. Oh, wait...
AirIntake @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:43AM
I can play all the songs on medium using the controller. It's good enough to test out the game. Or if you already have a guitar, the controller is good enough to test multiplayer (battle mode!).
Dexter @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:27AM
You could enter to win Guitar Hero 3 here:
http://www.seether.com/guitarhero/
Check it out...
Jerk Face @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:35AM
Yeah... but then I'd have to go to Seether's website. That doesn't seem like a good decision.
Sean @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:50AM
Definitely not a good decision. Definitely.
gonk @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:21AM
you could play it with a controller, i saw dumbasses do that in gamestop
Grant @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:43PM
it sucks to play it that way, but it was the only way to give co-op a try for me.
oddly enough, i think if you have played enough timing games, it makes the controller easier(than the guitar) to play with.
gonk @ Oct 22nd 2007 3:11PM
but that defeats the purpose of playing GUITAR hero
squeevi @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:29AM
You cannot kill the metal, the metal will live on.
Sean @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:51AM
This comes out next week, correct?
Sean @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:51AM
I means the retail game.
gonk @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:56AM
sunday
Christopher7xii @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:57AM
yes - and I'm totally stoked for it. Minor menu tweaks make accessibility so much better. Hell, even just the fact that they list the BAND and YEAR for each song is nice. Never got why they didn't do this with Guitar Hero 1 and 2, listing the artist on the track list. Also, the in game graphics are so much better now. The singers lips actually sync up, there's a live crowd (not just cloned bodies standing around) with stage diving and crowd surfing, and the band moves around and performs like an actual band. It's pretty entertaining to actually wait and watch until it's your turn now!
whymog @ Oct 22nd 2007 12:46PM
Wasn't this demo supposed to launch a week later? Hmm.
The Interbutts win again!
HeyTone @ Oct 22nd 2007 12:52PM
Does anyone know if you will be able to play 2 player coop in the demo?
dylanblair @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:44PM
No there isn't any co-op in the demo, only battle mode.
Grant @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:44PM
yeah, you can.
but only locally.
protege420 @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:34PM
NO, no co-op is available on demo just local battle..
Tim Harding @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:15PM
These five songs were playable at E for All, so I'm assuming it's the same demo. Two-player was available, but I can't remember if co-op was an option.
CubeGuy @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:01PM
So no different songs than were in the burned demo? Cripes.
mfed3 @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:40PM
dude if u have an xbox 360 just go to 3dgamers.com and download the iso. burn it to cd, and put it in. bam works. (shows up in the demo section)
The Heavy Metal Supremacy Cult of America @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:59PM
This game is a complete poser and spit in the face to all real diehard metal fans and classic rock enthusiasts, but obviuosly real metal heads arent gonna be playing this game anyway, so have a great time you posers and Emo losers cus' this game is made for you, the sell outs. Thanks for ruining gems like Reign and Blood and One, i hope you'll enjoy taking a piss on these songs. Damn you and your MTV generation, thank god Curt Cobain isnt still alive to see this. Oh, yeah, also, Slash you have sold out your metal cred for staring in the cover, F%ck Velvet Revolver and yourself, cus' you have now bin officially removed from our acknowledgment. And if anyone mentions added AC/DC or Zeppelin in this game should be shot in the mouth and hung to die.
-Sincerely,
The Heavy Metal Supremacy Cult of America
Joe @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:48PM
From videos I've seen of GH3, I'm less and less inclined to buy it altogether.
I'm a huge GH fan. Got the original April 2006, spent a few months moving up to Expert, joined Scorehero once I got good at Expert, pre-ordered GHII and bought it day one, beat Hard in a day, beat Expert in January. Beat Jordan, blah blah.
Now, I love some of the songs in GH3. Cherub Rock, Sabotage, 3's and 7's and Knights of Cydonia were great picks. But then when Neversoft took the reigns, I became a little worried. Would my favorite game series crap out? Over the summer, as info trickled out (FUCK, THROUGH THE FIRE AND FLAMES? Pretty cool...) but my opinions kept wavering.
Friday afternoon was the turning point. My friend had gotten the .iso and we went to his house. I played Rock You Like A Hurricane. "Hmm... It's OK, but has fairly retarded solos where it's not really necessary", I thought. (Keep in mind I thought this about a few songs in both Rocks the 80s and GH2.)
Lay Down and HMWYBS were too easy for me to get opinions on. They were fun, but I began to suspect something was off with the game. It felt more like a cheap knock-off of the series than a true successor to GH2's throne. Even Flow was great fun... then I tried The Metal.
The Metal was just stupid. I could get to the bridge with a low amount of problems. But when I hit the bridge however... UGH. That notechart felt more like a fourteen-year-old's first attempt at a custom song than a chart that was FO REALZ.
Viewing charts of songs like Raining Blood (looks completely fucking unfun) and 3's and 7's (a great song that got turned into a clusterfuck of triple chords) made me dread the ever-growing possibility of an abortion by Neversoft. And Ruby? That is fail of epic proportions. I love the song, but it seems like someone at Neversoft made the songs thinking "Hey, Expert's supposed to be really hard!" GH2's expert and GH80's experts were tough, but beatable with star power use, even if you kinda sucked. GH3? No such luck. And I haven't even mentioned the other problems.
GH3 will still be a fairly solid game. Maybe the demo threw me off, and the full game will be great. But for now, it's off my "must-haves" list for sure. It's the opposite of GH2 in my mind: a decent excitement turning into full-blown fanboyism for one; first-day purchase down to "low end of Christmas wishlist" for the other. Guess what leapfrogged it? Rock Band, because Harmonix was the soul of Guitar Hero.
(And I didn't even mention AFI, Slipknot, Disturbed, Kiss, or the Bret Michaels Band.)
jynxycat @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:28PM
oh.